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Strong's #3051 - λόγιον
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- a brief utterance, a divine oracle (doubtless because oracles were generally brief)
- in the NT, the words or utterances of God
- of the contents of the Mosaic law
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λόγ-ιον, τό,
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1. oracle, esp. one preserved from antiquity, Hdt. 4.178, 203, 8.60. γ, Plu. Thes. 26, Lys. 22: more freq. in pl., oracles, Hdt. 1.64, 8.62, 141, E. Heracl. 405, Ar. Eq. 120, al., Plu. Fab. 4, Mark 3:1-35 : distd. fr. χρησμοί, Th. 2.8 (the former being prose, the latter verse, acc. to Sch., but this distn. does not hold), cf. Plu. Pel. 20, Nic. 13, 2.412c.
2. τὰ λ. Κυρίου the sayings of the Lord, LXX Psalms 11:6(12).6, cf. Acts 7:38, Romans 3:2.
II τὸ λ. τῶν κρίσεων the oracular breastplate worn by the Jewish High-Priest, LXX Exodus 28:26(30), cf. Ph. 2.154; τὰ λόγια Aristeas 158.
λόγιον, λογιου, τό (diminutive of λόγος (so Bleek (on Hebrews 5:12), et al.; others, neuter of λόγιος (Meyer on Romans 3:2))), properly, "a little word (so Schol. ad Aristophanes ran. 969 (973)), a brief utterance, in secular authors a divine oracle" (doubtless because oracles were generally brief); Herodotus, Thucydides, Aristophanes, Euripides; Polybius 3, 112, 8; 8, 30, 6; Diodorus 2, 14; Aelian v. h. 2, 41; of the Sibylline oracles, Diodorus, p. 602 (from 50:34); Plutarch, Fab. 4; in the Sept. for חֹשֶׁן the breast-plate of the high priest, which he wore when he consulted Jehovah, Exodus 28:15; Exodus 29:5, etc.; (once for אֹמֶר, of the words of a man, Psalm 18:15
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λόγιον , -ου , τό
(dimin. of λόγος , v. ICC, Ro., 70),
[in LXX chiefly for H565, H561, Psalms 18:30; Psalms 19:14, al.; also for H1697, Isaiah 28:13, al.; (cf. λογεῖον (-ιον ) for H2833 the oracular breastplate of the H.P., Exodus 28:15, al.);]
an oracle: Acts 7:38, Romans 3:2, Hebrews 5:12, 1 Peter 4:11 (on the eccl., λόγια τ . Κυρίου , v. Lft., Essay on Sup. Rel., 172 ff.).†
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We are unable from our sources to throw any fresh light upon this word, which is so important in early Christian literature (see reff. in Sophocles Lex. s.v.), but for its Biblical usage see SH ad Romans 3:2, and for its application to the recently discovered ";Sayings of Jesus"; (P Oxy I. 1, IV. 654), see Two Lectures on the ";Sayings of Jesus"; by Drs. Lock and Sanday (Oxford, 1897) with the literature referred to there, and, more recently, H. G. E. White, The Sayings of Jesus from Oxyrhynchus (Cambridge, 1920).
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